GET TO KNOW YOUR GREENWAY: OVERLAND POND PARK
SPREE Staff Writer
Take a fishing pole and a picnic to enjoy a day out at Overland Pond Park this month. Overland Pond Park offers an escape from the city without ever leaving it.
Along with the pond itself, the banks are lush with native plants and signs of animal life. Blue Grama (Colorado’s state grass) is abundant and evidence of recent beaver activity marks many of the cottonwood trees around the pond. The pond is home to rainbow trout, carp, blue gill, and other species of fish. Cormorants, herons, and egrets often feed at the pond and turtles and frogs have been spotted here as well.
Overland Pond is a reclaimed gravel mining pit that was redesigned as a learning park along the banks of the South Platte River. The native plantings are a reminder of what the Colorado prairie might have looked like before human activity. Serving as a habitat sanctuary for migratory birds and other South Platte River fauna, trees that fall are left down to provide homes for small animals and nutrients for future pond life.
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Park Information:
Activities: Picnic tables, riverside and pond exploration, fishing (stocked pond) Sights: Fishing dock, Cormorants and various other birds Bathrooms: Seasonal Drinking Fountain: No Access to River: There is access to the both South Platte River and Overland Pond Events at Park: Family Fishing Day Water Festival, Greenway Foundation’s 5th grade excursion program SPREE Squad Checklist:
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